Rotary engine.



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. ROTARY ENGINE.

APPLICATION FILED MAB..17. 1906 No. 865,964. PATENTED SEPT. l0, 1907:. W. P. BLEEGKER.

ROTARY ENGINE.

APPLICATION FILED MAB.. 17. 1906.

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WARREN FLOYD BLEECKER, OF VICTOR, COLORADO, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-THIRD TO FRED- ERICK G. BLEECKER, OF GRAND ISLAND, NEBRASKA, AND ONE-THIRD 'IO MARTIN C.

BLEECKER, OF PUEBLO, COLORADO.

ROTARY ENGINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 10, 1907.

Application filed March 17,1906. Serial No. 306,568.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WARREN FLOYD BLEECKER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Victor, in the county of Teller' and lState ofColorado, have invented a new and Improved Rotary Engine, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

rlhis invention relates to improvements in rotary engines, the object being to provide an engine of this type, that will be simple in construction, having no parts liable to get out of order, and in which a high speed may be obtained with an economical use of motive agent. i

I will describe a rotary engine embodying my invention and then point out the novel features in the appendcd claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this speciiication, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the Figures.

2O Figure 1 is an elevation, partly in section, on the line 1 1 of Fig. 2, of an engine embodying my invention; Fig. 2 is a section on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2 Fig. 4 is a section on the line 4 4 of Fig. 5, showing a governor employed;

and Fig. 5 is a section on the line 5 5 of Fig. 4.

The engine comprises a casing 5 having a steam cylinder or chamber 6, and this casing is mounted on a base 7. Extended through the casing is a shaft consisting of a tubular member 8 having a bearing in a pillow-post 9, and a solid portion 10 having its bearing in a pillow-post 11; and also on this solid portion is a band-wheel 12. The tubular portion of the shaft within the steam chamber is provided with a radial wing 13, in the outer edge of which is a packing strip 14 designed to engage with the inner surface of the steam chamber,

and at one side of the wing 13 is a port 15, for the admission of steam or other motive agent to bear upon the said wing.

Arranged within the tubular portion of the shaft are tubes 1G, 17, and through the inner fixed tube 16 the steam or other motive agent is designed to pass, and thence outward through a port 18 formed in said inner tube. The outer tube 17 is also provided with anopening or port 19, and this outer tube is designed to regulate the opening or port 18, so that the steam or other motive agent may be cut off at any desired time. As a means for regulating the 'size of opening of the ports, I employ a governor for imparting rotary motion to the tube 17. The said governor, as here shown, consists of a rod 20, movable through a plate 21 on a yoke 22, mounted on the engine-base, the lower end of said rod having an arm 21, connected by a link 21b to a lug 21c on the tube 17. The rod passes loosely through a strap 22 to connection with a plate 22h, to which the upper ends of spring-arms 22c are attached, the lower 55 ends of said arms being secured to a plate a, which is secured to a bevel pinion b, meshing with a pinion c, and on the shaft of the pinion-c is a pulley d, from which a band e leads to a band-wheel f on the shaft 8.

In the upper portion of the casing is a rotary abutment 23, the said abutment being mounted on a shaft 24, on which is a gear-wheel 25, meshing with a gearwheel 26, on the section l0 of the main shaft. These gear-wheels are of equal size, so as to time the movements between the abutment of the wing on the main shaft and, as will be noted in the drawings, the abutment 23 is provided at one side with an opening 27, to per-mit the passing therethrough of the wing 13. The rotary abutment is lubricated from an oil-cup 28, and oil-cups 29 are arranged on the pillow-standards 9 and 70 11. The shaft 24 has its bearings in blocks 30, 3 1,

- mounted on extensions 32, 33, from the opposite sides of the casing, and to prevent the escape of motive agent around the shaft member 17, I employ a packing 34, engaged by a ring 35, which is pressed into position by means of a screw-collar 36, engaging with a thread formed on said extension 33.

In operation, the steam or other motive agent passes through the tube 16 and out through the port 18, the opening of said port, as before mentioned, being regu- S0 lated by the governor. As the motive agent passes through the port 15 it will act expansively upon the wing 13, the block 23 serving as an abutment, and upon nearly reaching the limit of the rotary movement, the motive agent will exhaust through the port 37 85 Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

A rotary engine comprising a motive agent easing, an abutment therein, a tubular shaft extended into the casing and having a port, a radial wing at one side of said port, 9() a tube extended into the hollow shaft, and having a port,

a ported tube having rotative movement on the iii-stnamed tube, a rod, an arm on said rod, a linkiconnection between said arm and the rotary tube, a governor for causing movements of said rod, and a driving connection between the governor and the shaft.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WARREN FLOYD BLEECKER.

Witnesses JAMES LEVELL, CHARLIE ERwrN. 

